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Ever feel like you may be at a disadvantage being a woman in Corporate America? Heather Havenwood does. She is a serial entrepreneur, author, and a top authority on digital marketing, sales coaching, and online publishing strategies.

When asked if she enjoyed working from home, Heather began by explaining why she describes herself as “unemployable” and as a result, has worked from home for many years. Between 1997 and 1999-2000, Heather was employed in Corporate America in B2B sales and achieved the number one spot out of 10,000 reps. She describes how she got a pat on the head, and comments such as “good job, you’re so cute”, and was fired. This was her first inkling that she was unemployable in corporate America.

Why was she fired? Because she didn’t fit the bill – she said: “I wasn’t a white dude who was 45 with a gut”. When she proposed going to global sales, they again said she didn’t fit – she was a single 25-year-old woman, without a college education amongst a sea of 40 something white males with families. Men with families and mortgages were viewed as more worthy of higher paying jobs. In fact, when she left, they gave all her accounts to her assistant, a man who was married with kids.

She then decided to go into waitressing and eventually became a hostess where she made suggestions to the manager on how things could be more efficient. The manager did acknowledge that she was right, but that he was the manager, and she was a hostess. And once again, she was fired. She couldn’t just stay within the box she was required to be.

Her determination, and refusal to give up allowed her to gain experience in sales, and to navigate being in

In 2005, Heather achieved massive success creating a digital marketing company and going from zero to one million in sales in just one year. She had a business partner who was the front man, and she did everything in the background. And one day, he left, emptied her bank accounts, and Heather was left having to foreclose on her home, and declaring bankruptcy.

Undeterred, she pressed on, and now has a thriving business helping others achieve success with their own businesses and how to sell like a boss!

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To get three free chapters of Heather’s book Sexy Boss™ How Female Entrepreneurship is Changing the Rule Book and Beating the Big Boys, go to www.askheatherann.com .

You can also purchase her book here.

Heather Ann Havenwood, is a serial entrepreneur and is regarded as a top authority on digital marketing, sales coaching, and online publishing business strategies. Heather Ann has been named Top 50 Must-Follow Women Entrepreneur’s for 2017 by Huffington Post. She is also called Chief Sexy Boss™ (from her Amazon BEST SELLER book Sexy Boss™ How Female Entrepreneurship is Changing the Rule Book and Beating the Big Boys and others call her an ‘Icon Creator’ or a ‘Wizard Behind the Curtain’. In 2006 she started, developed and grew an online information marketing publishing company from ground zero to over $1 million in sales in less than 12 months. Starting without a list, a product, a name or an offer, Heather Ann molded her business partner into a successful guru now known as an expert in his field. She has instructed, coached and promoted hundreds of entrepreneurs leading them down the path to success in building a lucrative business from their knowledge and leveraging it online.

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Are you riding the roller coaster of failed relationships and heartbreak? Today we have Diana Mandell, international Dating Coach and Relationship Expert, Speaker and Author.

Diana grew up in a family of entrepreneurs. From a very young age, she had a vision of having her own business. When she was 10, she saved a girl from committing suicide, without really having a knowledge of the impact of what she had done. She did, however, come to realize that her ability to handle psychological distress was innate in her, and wanted to be involved in something related to psychology, and helping people. She then went to undergrad and graduate school in psychotherapy and psychology.

The dating and relationship component of her business came from the desire to help people find their connections in the world, and navigate the dating scene, having experienced parents who had an exceptional marriage and set a very high standard.

Out of grad school, Diana became a therapist but soon found that she wanted to expand her scope and provide more support to her clients outside of the structured methodologies of therapy. She began a business as a life coach and quickly evolved into relationship coaching for women, men, and couples.

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Diana is an international Dating Coach and Relationship Expert, Speaker and Author. Diana specializes in helping men, women, and couples find and keep healthy and sustainable relationships with women they once thought were out of their league. Diana’s clients refer to her as the Female Hitch.

Since 2012, Diana has developed and perfected a personalized and exclusive dating blueprint formula to support her clients in the belief that love is possible.

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If you are like most parents, you probably had at least one (or many) occurrences when your baby just wouldn’t sleep, and neither did you.

Greta and Brad Zude, who are now parents of 6 children, began their quest on learning the secrets to a sleeping baby about 9 years ago, when they had their first child. Before her arrival, in fact even before Greta was pregnant, they read all the books, took parenting classes, and learned as much as they could about helping their baby sleep through the night, and easily nap during the day.

Their knowledge served them well for the first 4 weeks of their newborn’s life, but then at 4 weeks, everything changed. Naps became inconsistent, and their little one woke up several times a night, and sleep was irregular, for all of them. They decided to get in touch with a sleep consultant, who helped them work out what was normal and what was not. After a couple of weeks, things started to go more smoothly and by 8 weeks, their daughter was once again sleeping through the night.

From this experience, and the birth of their 5 subsequent children, Greta and Brad learned a great deal about sleep, and people started asking how they did it. They started to give classes to other parents, teaching them the secrets of a sleeping baby. Brad, who has an entrepreneurial spirit, came home from work one day when their youngest was 2 weeks old, and announced that they should become online baby sleep consultants. They created an online course, and set up a facebook page, and now they have approximately 550 students.

With lack of sleep, comes a myriad of issues – stress, exhaustion, marital problems, health problems, issues in the workplace – you name it. Through their course, Greta and Brad have given parents the tools they need to get the sleep they desperately need, and as a result, have a healthier more productive life. On a daily basis, they receive emails from happy parents claiming that the course saved their marriage, their babies are so happy, and many other tales of gratitude.

For Greta and Brad, one of the biggest benefits of their business, is that they have a tremendous amount of structure, so they can keep a healthy balance in their lives.

You can find out more about Secrets to a Sleeping Baby on Brad and Greta’s website at www.MyBabyCanSleep.com or on Facebook at Facebook.com/MyBabyCanSleep.

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Brad and Greta are parents to 6 healthy, happy, independent and affectionate children, who look to scripture to guide what they believe about the world, their children and themselves.

They are parents who understand that all children are different and may have different sleep training needs, and who love to help and guide other parents in training their children with love!

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